Red Sox are a mess in 2020 - which is on brand for 2020 w/ the "Sportz Jerks"

Red Sox stink but MLB baseball is back (for now)

Let’s start with former Red Sox cult hero and Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly throwing behind Houston Astros Batters. 

Jeremy - every MLB team should have a guy on their roster like Joe Kelly, tell us why? 

Leave it to the red sox to beat Jake De Grom - At least Eovaldi is getting run support.  

Blame Pie - we go down the payroll and assign blame 

Active Payroll is $115 million, the injured reserve payroll is $52 million (so almost 33% of the salaries)… and if you adjust the salaries for the shortened season… $43.7 million for active payroll and $15.7 million for injured reserve, so either way over 25% of your salaries are going to dudes who are injured 

JD Martinez - I’m going with Base salaries not adjusted - he’s at $23.75 million

Xander Bogaerts - $20 million

Nathan Eovaldi - $17 million

Jackie Bradley Jr. - $11 million 

Martin Perez - Pitcher - $5.5mil

Kevin Pillar - $4.25mil 

Christian Vasquez - $4.2mil

Jonathan Lucroy - $1.5mil

Brandon Workman - $3.5mil

Andrew Benintendi - $3.4mil

Matt Barnes - $3.1 mil

There’s a bunch of dudes I don’t know or care about but we can go through them 

Mitch Moreland $2.5mil - play him

Rafael Devers - $692,500 - play him 

Alex Verdugo - $600,000 - play him

Michael Chavis - $571,000 - play him - but not a 1B

Chris Sale - $30million 

Dustin Pedroia - $13mil

Eduardo Rodriguez - $8.3million (he’s only on 10-IR — he pitched well in 2019 relative to these other guys)

Paying David Price - $5.9mill (and he counts $16,000 against the luxury tax)

Paying Pablo Sandoval - $5mil 

Paying Manny $2million in deferred money - that’s ok 

Rusney Castillo is getting $14.27 million this year in a “buried minor league contract” 

Who’s on the trade block - Xander has a full no trade clause 

Eovaldi ? is he worth a flyer for a contender? 

Jackie Bradley? same as Eovaldi? 

Underrated Prospects

Baseball Analytics is “dead” in a 60 game season. 

the manager Roenicke, seems to be going out of his way to “out do” Bobby Valentine as worst 1 year manager of the 21st century for the Red Sox. 

Airing of Grievances 

Predictions going forward — As Clubber Lang said in Rocky 3 - my prediction is pain! Red Sox are tanking 

It didn’t have to be like this - it started with the overreaction of firing Alex Cora and the Mookie Betts deal with the Dodgers was an exclamation point! But lots happened along the way.

Moreland got benched the day after 2 homers - team can’t score 

Verdugo vs. Lefties rant from Andrew 

Benintendi, Pillar, What else